TV Series

Series Name:	Star Trek [1973-1975] (Star Trek: The Animated Series [DVD title])
Format:	TV Series
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Years:	1973 - 1975
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Animation, Action, Science Fiction
Rating:	6.0 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	12 Have Seen
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Selected Cast	William Shatner as Capt. Kirk (voice)
	Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock (voice)
	DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (voice)
	George Takei as Sulu (voice)
	Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura (voice)
	James Doohan as Montgomery Scott/Lt. Arex/others (voice)
	Majel Barrett as Nurse Christine Chapel/Lt. M'Ress/others (voice)

Notes

Spin-off, revival of the 1966-69 series in animated form but featuring many of the same writers and all but one of the original cast members. (Due to budget restrictions, the series could not hire Walter Koenig to reprise Chekov, however the actor was compensated by being allowed to write an episode.) Winner of a Daytime Emmy Award.

Only 22 episodes were produced split over two seasons, but rerun continually for several years afterwards. Soon after production concluded pre-production began on Star Trek Phase II, a proposed live-action revival series that eventually evolved into Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD Box Set

Star Trek The Animated Series - The Animated Adventures Of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek - CBS DVD - USA (2006)

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Comments and Reviews


23skidoo 9th Jun 2015		The title on this is incorrect: as originally broadcast the show was just titled Star Trek. It wasn't dubbed Star Trek: The Animated Series until it came out on DVD about 10 years ago. I've asked the mods to correct this. (Edit: correction made)



Monolith 28th May 2015		I'm not even aware of this show, I watched TOS in the 60s and all the way through the 70s as BBC2 obligingly kept repeating it. But this animation is news to me. :eek:



23skidoo 28th May 2015		Rather underrated. The show gets kicked for being a kiddie cartoon and even Paramount wouldn't accept it as canon for many years. But reading the credits reveals that the show was basically the 4th season of the original series, with nearly all the writers being veterans of the original show, SF great Larry Niven did one as well, as did Chekov actor Walter Koenig (in compensation for there apparently not being enough money in the budget to pay him to return to play Pavel for the series). It's pretty clear at least a couple episodes were likely written for TOS. The series also established some important backstory for the franchise, including Spock's childhood and we are introduced to the first captain of the Enterprise, Robert April (sadly, the new-timeline version of Trek appears to have eliminated this character from the history, at least on screen; a version of him did appear in a comic book prequel to Into Darkness). Critics also forget this show actually won a writing Emmy, something TOS never managed to do. Only 22 episodes were made of this, with the second "season" only consisting of about 6 episodes as back in the day I guess networks assumed young viewers weren't paying attention so they often only made a few episodes of a show and then just reran them over and over. I've never been sure why they stopped making it, because it was a hit, except maybe it was due to Roddenberry & Co starting to ramp up plans for the Phase II series that eventually evolved into Star Trek The Motion Picture.



cannyuk SUBS 25th May 2015

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